In this compelling biography, historian A. J. P. Taylor reevaluates Bismarck’s motives and methods, focusing on the chancellor’s rise to power in the 1860s and his removal from office in 1890.
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"Mr. Taylor has performed the difficult task of compressing the most earth-shaking career between Napoleon and Hitler into fewer than 300 pages with conspicuous success."
— Times Literary Supplement
A. J. P. Taylor (1906–1990), born in Lancashire, studied at Oriel College, Oxford. From 1953 he was a lecturer in international history at Oxford, also enjoying a successful career as a broadcaster. Taylor’s many books include The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848-1918 and English History 1914-1945.
Nigel Patterson, British audiobook narrator and AudioFile Earphones Award winner, has many credits as a stage, screen, and voiceover actor that influence his powerful characterization across a broad range of genres. A graduate of the University of Oxford, he is fluent in French and Spanish.